---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 529"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "529"
heading: "Prohibition on certain discipline by labor organization"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/529"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Procedure"
  - "Subchapter VII — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §529. Prohibition on certain discipline by labor organization


It shall be unlawful for any [labor organization](/usc/29/402.md?p=i), or any [officer](/usc/29/402.md?p=n), agent, shop steward, or other representative of a [labor organization](/usc/29/402.md?p=i), or any [employee](/usc/29/402.md?p=f) thereof to fine, suspend, expel, or otherwise discipline any of its members for exercising any right to which he is entitled under the provisions of this chapter. The provisions of [section 412 of this title](/usc/29/412.md) shall be applicable in the enforcement of this section.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–257, title VI, § 609, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 541.)